Christmas Day

Well, all I have to say about Christmas morning is that our kids got waaaay too many presents, but they truly loved every single minute of their giftwrap destroying frenzy! Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful gifts - we sincerely appreciate it so much! Sawyer and Sutton are thrilled with their new toys, and it's honestly so nice to change things up and have some new things to play with after the holidays. Sawyer is especially happy with the Crayola Glow Station that he got from Aunt Kari, and he has been taking the glow wand to bed with him at night like a flashlight.

Look at all those new toys!

Stella calmly watching all the present excitement

Sawyer attempting to show off the Display and Pose skills he learned from Holly (alas, the box was slipping!)

Christmas Morning Magic

Christmas jammies? Check. New gloves? Check. New book? Check. New bongos? Check...we're happy and good to go!

There's no better breakfast than raspberry danish and power tools

After spending the morning (and eating a HUGE breakfast!) at Gigi & Granddad's, we headed home to get ready to cook Christmas dinner for my dad's side of the family. My family was here along with Judi & Bruce, Big Heidi, Lesley & Stephen, and Kelley & Mike. My cousin Hilary is due with her baby girl any minute now, so the Peerys (my dad's sister Candy and her 5 kids, 5 grandkids and various significant others) all decided to stick close to their home for the day, and even though we missed them it was kind of nice to have a smaller group of people to mingle and hang out with. We had a lot of fun hosting our first Christmas for the extended family, and hopefully everyone else had fun too! Cousin Kelley came with the news that Mike had proposed to her on Christmas Eve, so it looks like we'll have another wedding to attend in 2009 - yay!

Sutton tidying up before company came

This may be the best I'm going to get for my family Christmas tree picture this year - these boys just won't sit still!